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San Vicente Creek Tunnel

Santa Cruz County, California

Photo 

Photo taken by Jef Poskanzer

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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Map 

Description 

The "Davenport Tunnels" were blasted for the creeks to pass through to the ocean without recreating the coastal marshland which the Ocean Shore Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad had filled in.

Facts 

Overview
Tunnel for San Vicente Creek under CA 1 & Union Pacific Railroad (Nee Southern Pacific) and Ocean Shore Railroad
Location
Davenport, Santa Cruz County, California
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1906
Railroads
- Interurban
- Ocean Shore Railroad (OSR)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
Tunnel
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.01006, -122.19315   (decimal degrees)
37°00'36" N, 122°11'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/571781/4096292 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Davenport
Inventory number
BH 60671 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bore Tunnel (278)
Built 1906 (578)
Built during 1900s (6,799)
CA 1 (25)
California (2,279)
Davenport, California (2)
Interurban (858)
Ocean Shore Railroad (4)
 Open (38,216)
Owned by railroad (11,102)
Railroad (14,368)
Santa Cruz County, California (42)
Southern Pacific Railroad (537)
Tunnel (1,096)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,161)

Update Log 

  • April 14, 2014: Added by Luke Harden

Sources 

  • Luke

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